Archives for February 2012

Flavius Josephus wrote an age-old classic of Jewish history, The War of the Jews (or "Jewish War"), hence my post title.
This could get interesting: the last time we left Ben Smith, he was conniving with Josh Block to smear Eli Clifton, Matt Duss, and Ziad Jilani for their forthright coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Think Progress, the blog … [Read more...]

Ynet reportsthat an advisor of Bibi Netanyahu has suggested that the world starve Iran into submission:
Iran's citizens should be starved in order to curb Tehran's nuclear program, officials in Jerusalem said Wednesday ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming trip to Washington.
"North Korea is halting its nuclear program in order to receive … [Read more...]

Among the new nuggets exposed by Wikileaks' dump of Stratfor e-mails is an eye-opening 2009 memo from an analyst who met with an intelligence source in Mexico. The latter had a Mexican ex-military friend with a background in Mexican UAV (drone) systems. The source told his Stratfor "handler" that the Georgians just before their war with Russia, had … [Read more...]

The Wikileaks dump of Stratfor e-mails (see this comprehensive background article on the project and this glossary of wacky Strator intel-speak terms) has exposed one particularly interesting set of relationships. One of the company's chief Israeli sources was Haaretz's former intelligence correspondent, Yossi Melman. Melman recently quit his job (Hebrew) … [Read more...]

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